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Still, Jimmy the Greek Snyder suggested odds of 5 to 2 on Riggs. Eleanor Tennant, one of Riggs' first coaches, predicted that her protégé would win easily. Like almost everyone else, she was taken in by the conventional wisdom that an adequate male player should be able to beat a first-class woman. Almost everyone was wrong...
...linebacking will have a familiar look, with last year's standouts Sandy Tennant and Bob Kristoff returning. But sophomore Eric Kurzweil will provide a new look at the third spot...
First, there is his tennis game: he got started by two women, Dr. Esther Bartoch (then the number three ranking women's player in Los Angeles) and Eleanor Tennant (who later trained Alice Marble). And under them he perfected the winning softspin game, not to mention the psyche-out gimmick. Then there is the crooked way he rose to wealth: he married it, in Priscilla Wheelan (the Wheelan family was sole owner of American Photograph Corp. and Riggs was handed one of its executive positions). He settled down in the corporate saddle for several lazy years -- now that's hardly...
...Tennant and Kristoff will make up the hub of the Crimson defense. Tennant, a tenacious and aggressive fireplug, threw his 5 ft. 10 in., 210-pound frame into 73 tackles in 1972, (49 unassisted, 24 assists) to lead the Crimson...
Kristoff, bowlegs and all, logged 243 minutes of playing time last Fall and tied for the team lead for unassisted tackles with 52. He also recovered four fumbles and intercepted a pass. Kristoff and Tennant team up to provide Harvard with as strong a pair of inside linebackers as anyone in the Ivy League can offer...